I've Had It - The Great MAGA Break Up

Episode Date: November 20, 2025

The last republican, Adam Kenzinger, gives us all the tea on leaving the MAGA cult.Order our new book, join our Substack, and more by clicking here: https://linktr.ee/ivehaditpodcast.Thank yo...u to our sponsors:This episode is brought to you by Booking.com: Head over tohttps://booking.com and start your listing today. Get Seen. Get Booked on Booking.com.Apretude by Viiv Healthcare: Learn more at https://APRETUDE.com or call 1-888-240-0340.Addyi, The Little Pink Pill: See full prescribing information and medication guide, including boxed warning for severe low blood pressure and fainting, at http://addyi.com/piUncommon Goods: To get 15% off your next gift, go to https://UNCOMMONGOODS.com/hadit.Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial and start selling today at https://SHOPIFY.COM/haditFollow Us:I've Had It Podcast: @IvehaditpodcastJennifer Welch: @mizzwelchAngie "Pumps" Sullivan: @pumpspumpspumpsSpecial guest: Adam Kinzinger  @Adam_Kinzinger ​See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.ca slash Wondery. That's audible.com. This episode of I've had it is brought to you by booking.com. Since 2010, they've helped over 1.8 billion vacation rental guests find places to stay. That's Billion with a B. Head over to Booking.com and start your listing today. Get seen, get booked on Booking. com. So are we supposed to start the podcast? All right, patriots, gay, triots, they treatets, black, trots, brown triots. Welcome to America's top DEI podcasts, where we like to share our petty grievances, which have turned into enormous grievances in this fight to cling on to democracy, pumps, my illustrious and world famous co-host. the head beaver in charge what have you had it with okay what i've had it with is people that ask you
Starting point is 00:01:07 for your opinion and then argue about it like it's you asked me i didn't volunteer i've gotten very good about being asked i don't unless it's my children of course i insert myself into their lives but i typically try not to insert myself into random conversations that i don't care about but then when I'm asked for my opinion and somebody argues my new thing is you asked I told you you're arguing I'm done I'm like I'm so done with that in my life and people in my life who think that they're going to argue with me about my opinion you can't argue with me about my opinion or my feelings those are mine I get to keep them have it did this happen to you recently it did happened to me recently can you share the details of family member okay yes it was a family
Starting point is 00:02:04 but it was not political it was about a parenting question and my response was like my kids are grown like i don't these aren't things i talk to them about well what what's your opinion on such and such and i'm like well this is it well that's just not even right well shut the fuck up Like, if you disagree, just say, I completely disagree with that, but don't come in under the guise of what's your opinion on this. Just say, what do you think about this? I disagree. Okay, we're disagreeing. Was this a passive, aggressive, or maybe just an aggressive critique on your parenting style? Was that what was wrapped up into this? It was more passive, aggressive, and I think that's what bothers me. If it would have just been an aggressive
Starting point is 00:02:55 assault on my parenting, I would have been like, yeah, you know, I would have given it some thought. But since it was passive aggressive, even though maybe I'm wrong, which I don't think I am, I'm immediately going to defend it until my last breath. Can you share with me and the listeners what you're allegedly wrong about? Or something am I going to wrong about monitoring my children's partying because maybe some of their pictures are. on social media show beer cans in their hands. It's like, okay. But they all can legally drink, correct?
Starting point is 00:03:37 According to fake ID, yes, but no. But I mean, you have a, you have a 20, 25, 23, and 20. Okay, so the suggestion is that you're not monitoring the partying enough. They don't live here. I mean, we've talked about alcoholism. we've talked about addiction like ad nauseum it is not something they're unaware of but short of driving my car and camping outside their apartment i'm my hands are a little bit tight but it's like well it just shouldn't be on social media okay that doesn't mean it's going away here's my advice unsolicited advice
Starting point is 00:04:16 here's my opinion okay let me see if i argue with it i would have this family member i would tell your children to block this family member from seeing their social media. That's how I would fix it. That's a great way. Here's the deal. If you want me to pay your cell phone bill while you're still in school, you need to block ex-family member because this person is a Gladys Kravitz, codependent, nosy, micromanager, and I don't want to hear it. You're in college, potentially drinking beer, doing the things you're supposed to be doing, and I really don't want to know about it. And I certainly don't want this nosy, busy body knowing about it. Certainly don't want Gladys in on it.
Starting point is 00:04:55 I would respond very aggressively to the passive, aggressive nature of this family member. Okay. Let me tell you what I've had it with. Okay. All right. It's a situation that I'd had it with. So I took my dogs to the dog park two nights ago. We walked there and my dogs are super enthusiastic about going to the dog park because we go in the evenings and they're starting to become little New York dogs, pumps. Like they can navigate through people because we are all fast walkers, Tebby, Chachon, myself.
Starting point is 00:05:21 So we make our way to the dog park and we get in and the dogs are running around socializing. Sometimes they get a little codependent with me and I remind them like, this is your time to shine. You know, show that you're independent. Don't be a titty baby with your mama at the doggy park, right? So we talk through it. We talk on our way there and then we get them like, remember our talk. So there were these other two dogs in the dog park. And the dogs owners, one of the dogs owners was a male.
Starting point is 00:05:50 the other dog owner was a female and they were chit-chatting and then their dogs were playing and i'm kind of observing everything that's going on and then all of a sudden the one of the dogs and both dogs were in outfits they had on like coats a lot of new york dogs having little coats and right they're stylish dogs all right so one of the dogs just completely mounts the other dog and is going to town. And I couldn't help but notice the dog sex at the dog park. And I'm just kind of waiting for the owner of the mounter to call the dog off. Instead, what I witnessed was rather alarming. It was coaching and play by play. No. Yes. So there's this little terrier pints in like a raincoat, right?
Starting point is 00:06:48 He has on like a little raincoat in a scarf. Right? This is the terrier predator who mounts. And I don't know. It could have been. I think it was a male. It mounts another dog. And the woman was kind of sitting there.
Starting point is 00:07:02 And I assumed the dog that was getting mounted was hers. But this man was sitting there. And he was like, yeah, buddy, that's looking pretty good. Do you still know how to do that? And I'm kind of looking. And then my dogs are looking. And again, you know, I don't have an issue with dog sex. That's dog sex.
Starting point is 00:07:22 And then it turns out the other dog was male. And so then I certainly don't have any because she was like, I guess he likes it. As it went on, I assumed that the one that was getting mounted was female, but it was a male. It was male on male. And of course, I support gay dog sex as long as it's consensual. What alarmed me about it was the Minaj Atois coaching. factor to it in full display publicly and I'm telling you this went on for like five to 10 minutes and so much so that they just never interrupted and I know that nobody was getting
Starting point is 00:08:01 penetration because of the aforementioned outfits raincoats scarves and things that these dogs had on but it was it was aggressive gay dog sex which I'm fine with the participation by the one owner. Right. And he says it like this, pence. He's like, well, you still remember how to do that, don't you? You're just getting right up in there, aren't you? And it's just going on and on. And I'm looking at the woman and I'm like, why are we all just going along with this? I mean, typically when dogs start doing that, you're like, okay, knock it off, knock it off. Like, for example, sometimes my dog, Tebby will mount cha-cha. And I immediately remind him. Number one, she's a minor. And number two, she's your sister.
Starting point is 00:08:44 right right knock it off knock it off and none of that happened here and maybe maybe i may uh dog sex prude i don't want to be that but what are your thoughts on that okay here's the thing i don't have a problem with the dog sex dogs are going to be dogs i have a huge problem with the owner doing the play by play that's fucking weird shit how old is this person i would say it was probably 60 too kind of it was kind of creepy i mean i was thinking like you know 18 19 20 they kind of think it's funny no that's too old that's very voyeuristic i mean he got into it it sounds like he was really into it he was narrating he was coaching yeah i thought it was really really really i mean it got to the point where i just i got my dogs and i put their leashes back on there and i thought
Starting point is 00:09:40 we're just going to take a long walk home because i don't want to be exposed and again it's not the gay dog sex that I take issue with. I support it. I support gay animals. I'm an ally of gay animals. I just didn't appreciate the coaching and the narrating in a public space. And I think at the very minimum, if your dog wants to have gay sex, you should encourage your dog to do it in private. That's all I'm saying. Sex is private. I mean, it just is. You just don't want to see any kind of narrated sex at a public place. A lot of people do, pubs. A lot of people do. Well, yeah, they do. But for me personally, I don't want narrated sex in my public space. You're asexual. I know. But I think a lot of people like it. It was the dog component that was a little
Starting point is 00:10:31 alarming. Yeah. And it just sounds like he was like high five in it. Like go thing. He was. He was cheering him on. He was really proud of him. He was really proud of him. All right. That's disturbing. Welcome to I've had it. I've had it. I'm Jennifer.
Starting point is 00:10:47 I'm Angie. As the aforementioned head beaver in charge. Kylie. What do you think about the gay dog sex at the dog park? Gay dog sex, great. Do your thing. The human is where it really gets disgusting to me. I mean, what does he do to other humans?
Starting point is 00:11:06 He sees like a couple making out and he stops on the sidewalk. Right. Wow. You guys are getting good at that. It's fucking weird in any situation. Yeah. I don't like it. The other owner did the the dog that he mounted, did she object in any way? It seemed to me that she had was experiencing a bit of paralysis or that maybe they meet up all the time for this. It was so bizarre. Again, not the dogs mounting because I've talked to you about the problems that I sometimes have. with my family and this happening and in the discussions I have with my dogs about underage sex, public sex and incest with Tebe and Chah. So I handle that internally. Obviously, if that happened at the dog park, I would swiftly move in so that all of my fellow patrons at the dog park
Starting point is 00:11:58 would know that, you know, I'm going to call, I'm going to hold Tebby accountable for the incestuous aggressions to a minor, Chachaw. they were so laxadaisical about it that i i'm kind of and the dog is like i mean it's just going like a gyraider right in a raincoat with a scarf okay the other dog is a terrier that kind of looks like it but it has on like a sweater and they're just they're just going crazy and i just kept waiting for someone to call off and then it was just so normal to them and not disturbing to them that I started to think, am I the problem? Right.
Starting point is 00:12:47 Am I a dog sex prude? Right. And so I just packed my dogs up and we left the dog park because I just felt like, I felt like they were, they thought it was so normal and thought so little of it, even commenting and encouraging it that I thought, I'm clearly the problem here. I'm the new redneck that moved from Oklahoma and maybe my dogs are not as progressive as these dogs. Maybe I need to let Tebby just have his way with cha-cha. Maybe I need to evolve here. I didn't know what to do. That's how upside down the whole thing was. This is dog exhibitionism.
Starting point is 00:13:21 It is. I don't see that in Oklahoma. I hadn't seen it. And I've been going to the dog park now. I've lived up here a month and a half. We go to the dog park all the time. And that was at first. Now, I've seen mounting. And then I see corrections. Right. From human owners. I see, you know, like, all right, let's tone that down, stop that. But here it was, the opposite is really weird, not to belaborate, but listeners, viewers, go in the comment section. Tell me what you think about this. Am I the crazy person?
Starting point is 00:13:52 Are they the crazy people? Or is it just nobody's crazy and it just is what it is. I don't know. And I'm not, like you said, I'm asexual, so I'm not the best judge. Speaking of pumps being asexual, I've got a five-star review. And the gay-theist fan girl writes, Jen is living her best liberal dream life while Pomp's lounge is in bed with her dogs
Starting point is 00:14:14 by 6 p.m. embracing her new found asexuality in Oklahoma. This shows therapy, comedy, and political rebellion. Kylie is the fearless leader of all lesbians and keeps this chaos on track. Thank you, Jen and Pumps, for saying out loud, but we are all screaming into the void. You all normalized losing it, and it is appreciated. I think the right wingers would agree with that.
Starting point is 00:14:41 They have normalized losing it. Right. Unhingedness. I saw a book review yesterday. This is random about Life as a Lazy Susan of Shit Sandwiches. At which? Here it is. There it is.
Starting point is 00:14:55 And it was, it seemed like a hate review the whole way down. I read the whole thing. It was like, they're normalizing misery, blah, blah, blah. At the bottom, it was like five stars. I loved it. So, okay, I've got a one star. Okay. It says, don't worry, everyone.
Starting point is 00:15:15 And Rough Around the Edges, writes, these are just old spinsters who are so lonely. I'm sure they cry about it each and every day they woke up alone, living in their own created hell. Their hearts are empty. Rough around the edges, that's what we do every morning. I wake up and I just start bawling crying in solitude. dude, you fucking moron, being alone is fabulous.
Starting point is 00:15:40 And we're not alone that often. We have careers and other things. But I imagine rough around the edges might be doing a little projection, considering that this person is probably sitting alone, finding our podcast reviews somewhere on the internet and filling that in to fill the void of their own loneliness. Don't sell out loneliness. Yeah, loneliness is great.
Starting point is 00:16:06 Good. And rough around the edges, I just want you to know, I share my bed with two French bulldogs and I share my pillow with one. So I do not wake up alone. Okay, I've got a couple of news stories for you. This one is people who talk to their dogs like their humans have higher emotional intelligence. It says this behavior, often seen as playful or eccentric, may actually reflect an individual's advanced capacity for emotional connection. Researchers found that, that participants who frequently conversed with pets were more attuned to subtle social cues and demonstrated greater compassion in relationships. I knew it. I just knew it. The evidence just keeps rolling in about our emotional intelligence and highly evolved brains. And this is just another one because I have conversations with my dogs all the time.
Starting point is 00:16:59 I mean, we talk constantly. One of them sitting right here under me and like they, you know, they know, they know. like before i started recording like okay you're going to have to hold and stay this is going to be like an hour and then i tell them what we're going to do and i'm just not one of these people that just assumes that dogs don't need to be spoken to they need to know what's going on i completely agree you have to which goes to what about the guy in the park is he like super he might be super evolved right so that's what i'm saying maybe maybe i'm like in preschool emotional evolution and he's like a a Ph.D. Yeah. Per that study, I think he would be more emotionally mature and involved than I.
Starting point is 00:17:40 I agree. Okay. This one, Jen, is just to piss you off. A student earns a perfect score on an exam for his drawing of Jesus Christ, and the prompt was write a short story about someone who sacrificed everything. They drew a very detailed photo of Jesus and said Jesus only, and it got 100%. I mean, this is just, you know, I know that there's probably people that are religious that hear me say that they're like, oh my God, but seriously, like that was not the prompt. And it's just, I've just had it. I've had it with Jesus thumpers. I've just had it.
Starting point is 00:18:27 I was going to say, like, how much. effort was put into that picture. I mean, the drawing itself was good, but I would flunk the person because it fails to meet intellectual standards. But I think the drawing is pretty impressive. Right, but it's not an art class. So what do you teach? Right. So that's, you get a zero out of 10. But isn't that, isn't, isn't this the perfect, uh, example of what's happening nationwide right now that Moses, Mike Johnson can just mention God or the Lord or Jesus and then he gets excused for covering up pedophilia. Right.
Starting point is 00:19:07 Doesn't Trump get to say, you know, that, you know, he reads two Corinthians. You know, this is just, this is affirmative actions for Christians. If you just say you're a Christian, then any behavior you do, not following the rules of that exam is going to be rewarded, even if you're a piece of shit that doesn't follow the rules. That's my problem with this. That's my problem with Mago Christians, not some of our listeners that are, you know, Christian light or whatever, but the people who think you give a person a complete pass and even a hundred percent score because they Christian signal.
Starting point is 00:19:48 And I just think that's bullshit. It's the blasphemy thing. If the teacher would have given a zero out of ten, then would the teacher have been attacked because, you know, you are not allowed. allowing this person to answer the question and it's blasphemy that you gave this a zero. Like the teacher, yeah, the kid was setting the teacher up. Right. And the parents would have a stage five meltdown and be at some school board meeting.
Starting point is 00:20:12 Can you imagine? The teacher's a Satanist and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. When, you know, it's just we are empowering iron age thinkers that want a hall pass for just saying, hey, I'm a Christian. And then they get a hall pass for doing horrible shit. Now, granted, the person who drew that, that wasn't horrible shit. but they deserve to get a zero because they didn't follow the rules and because you drew a picture of jesus you don't get a jesus carve out for that and get a hundred percent you did not follow instructions and you're trying to you know frame the teacher so then it can go viral in the maga world
Starting point is 00:20:52 because this is the shit they care about and it's so dumb and another thing i want somebody in Maga. If you're going to draw Jesus, drawing as the black man that he was, stop with the whitewashed version of it. I mean, let's just start with that. Jennifer, I'll just tell you this right now. That will never fucking happen with the evangelicals that I know. Jesus is as white as white can be in their mind. I distinctly remember going to somebody's house. And I don't, maybe I was like in junior high or high school. So I was older. And they had a picture of Jesus as a black man. And I was like, oh, you know, that was the first time I ever entertained the thought, having been indoctrinated from jump that maybe Jesus wasn't a white man, despite all the evidence
Starting point is 00:21:52 that he was from. So wait, you went to a friend's house. Yeah. And what grade were you in? High school? Middle school, high school. Okay, and they had a portrait of black pictures that you get of Jesus, you know, all that. And were these people white? I can't remember. I'm going to say probably not if they have now. Okay, now I'm remembering who it was. They were, um, European. So white. So white, yeah. But I'm just saying in Oklahoma, European is, I mean, you know, they came from like Poland maybe. So Caucasian.
Starting point is 00:22:41 Caucasian, right. But so, but they understood the geography. And that was the first time I'd ever, it ever even crossed my brain that there was a correlation between the geography and the race. Middle Eastern. Did you say anything to your mother about this development? You view it as blue. blasphemous or no I remember thinking oh yeah there's no way Jesus can be white like from just basic geography no did I run home to my mother probably not I probably would remember if I did because she would have said oh my gosh Jesus is white and I don't remember that conversation so I'm assuming I didn't okay Kylie okay we've got another this one I remember I really liked. In 2022, 90% of complaints about Dublin Airport came from one person who made over 23,000 complaints in a single year. And it says Dublin Airport's operator reported 26,196 aircraft noise complaints in 2022. And one resident submitted 23,431 of them, averaging 64 a day.
Starting point is 00:23:59 That is such a laser-focused commitment to grievances. I mean, that is like, if we were to have the, like, I've had it award of the year, I would give it to that person and have them come on the podcast and interview them and just say, you had had it so much that you visited this grievance 64 times a day, wrote about it. You know, I mean, this is somebody who's just really dedicated to their grievance, a singular grievance. They're so mad about it. I just, when you're reading that, I'm trying to do the math in my head. I'm like, it flashes in my mind, the person that wrote me, the anonymous letter,
Starting point is 00:24:38 but I know it was my across-the-street neighbor about my laundry soap, how grateful I am that I only got one anonymous letter and not 60 for a day. That is laser-focused. You're right. I will never forgive you for throwing away that anonymous letter. That really was failure on my part. So for new listeners, what happened is Pumps received an anonymous letter, and it was sent to her house and to her husband's office, the exact same letter. Because Pumps uses this laundry soap that has a tinge of pachuli in it. And pachuli is one of these smells that it's like cilantro. People either love it or hate it.
Starting point is 00:25:24 And so pachuli, some people like it. and then some people just have this visceral horrific reaction to it. And if you're around pumps or her children or her dogs, they all smell like pachuli. Like Roman, my youngest son will say, like, were you with pumps today? Because I can smell the pachuli. Like the scent is so strong that if I'm around her a lot, then I smell like pachuli by proxy. And then my children pick up on the scent because they're friends with her children. It's a pretty big smell is what I'm saying.
Starting point is 00:25:54 Her house smells like it. Everything smells like it. So this neighbor had had it with Luke, her youngest son, going over and smelled like, But Chulie, and she banned him from coming in the house. And she wrote this really mean letter about the laundry soap and that everybody in the neighborhood was talking about it and blah, blah, blah. So of course, Pumps calls me over. I immediately arrived to do a dramatic reading of the letter. We just howled with laughter because she knew exactly who it was because the son had come home and said, you know, Jimmy's mom won't let me come in their house anymore because she says I stink. Right.
Starting point is 00:26:24 It had come to my door and I said, yeah, they're in the backyard. Come on through and he gets, no, my mom won't let me come in your house because of the smell. To be fair, she went on and on in the letter about the medical terminology for nose blind. And I'll give her this. I completely have it. I'm completely nose blind to that smell. So she did score that one. It's hilarious.
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Starting point is 00:30:32 Pretty good. By the way, I know you guys have Oklahoma roots. I lived there for a year and a half. I lived in Enid and Altus. Really? Yeah. Enid. I've been to Enid.
Starting point is 00:30:43 It's a rough place. Yeah. And Altus, it's like when I had, when I had nothing to do, we would go cruise around the Walmart. Like, literally that was it. literally that was it. So, you know, but I have affection for it. It was great Air Force towns, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Well, okay, Adam Kinsinger, I remember you kind of came to my awareness during the January 6th hearings. And will you just share with us, like once you broke from the
Starting point is 00:31:13 cult, what happened to you? Like what was not you personally, but like the reaction within the party to you is the first part of the question, the second part of the question, how many colleagues would say, I totally agree with you, but I'm just not going to go that far? Yeah, it's a good question. So, look, in 2016, I didn't vote for Trump. And so I was always kind of on the outs of the Republican base. But you know, you do your best to try to manage through that. And then when frankly, the night of the election in 2020, when Trump came out and said, frankly, the election is being stolen. Like, that to me was a huge breaking line because for democracy to survive, the only thing that you need, I mean, you don't have to agree on anything except that you can vote in your vote counts. That's it, right?
Starting point is 00:31:59 And then everything else kind of runs. And then, of course, January 6th was the worst day, Frank, that I've been through and I've been to war. So the reaction immediately was, look, for about four weeks after January 6, people forget this, but Donald Trump was kind of persona non grata. But nobody talked about him. Nobody even showed up when he left Andrews Air Force Base. That's the crazy thing when you think about it. And so it was like this silence and everybody's trying to figure out what do we do? What's next?
Starting point is 00:32:30 And then four weeks later, Kevin McCarthy goes to Mar-a-Lago. And by the way, Kevin McCarthy owns 100% the resurrection of Donald Trump. And with that trip to Mar-a-Lago, that made the difference. And so the first four weeks, my colleagues were kind of like, you know, hey, yeah, maybe. maybe we need to turn against this. I don't know. Somebody else has to lead it, but I'm willing to turn. And then the second Kevin went to Marlago, everybody chose sides.
Starting point is 00:32:57 And frankly, what, 90% of the Republican Party chose the side of Donald Trump because they knew he was coming back. And so the cost then at that point is like, look, we unfortunately in the last like 20 years of society, we start to get our identity from our politics, which is actually a stupid place to get identity from. but we all do it. And so now imagine being kicked out of that tribe, kind of losing that identity, in many cases losing your friends because a lot of my friends were, you know, Republicans. And it takes a real toll. But it also like helped me to kind of double down on this is the right thing to do. And then the question about how many of my colleagues believe, look, I think around the January 6th time frame,
Starting point is 00:33:40 probably 99% of the Republicans in the House and in the Senate, knew what January 6 was, knew that Donald Trump launched it. And, but over the last five years, you know, a lot of them have been replaced. You have new people that have come along that have been believers in the first place. And then humans are really uniquely capable of convincing ourselves of anything. And I think in order to be able to look at yourself in the mirror, a lot of these men and women have convinced themselves that the January 6 was not what it was. And so I think now probably 50 to 70 percent probably of Republicans, uh, believe. leave it was some deep state conspiracy or whatever.
Starting point is 00:34:18 And it's sad. It's sad. I think history will be, we'll reflect it correctly. But we're in a moment where, I don't know, brains are a little unhinged. Do you think that the Republican, the Republican party that you were in when you were first in Congress, does that still exist or is it now the MAGA party? No, it's gone. And, you know, the name of the film is the last Republican.
Starting point is 00:34:42 I think, I didn't name it. Obviously, I'm just the subject. but I think it's an apt name because the party that I joined, you know, I became a Republican because I believe in America's role in the world, right, strong national defense, that party is gone. I mean, if you even look at, okay, let's say initially the Republican Party claimed to be for smaller government, there's nothing that, what they're doing now is actually encroaching major governments. I mean, look at ice on the streets, look at all this stuff. they are you know internationally we back basically vladimir putin and not our friends in
Starting point is 00:35:19 ukraine so that party that i knew is gone and i think what happened is kind of slowly from 19 you know with with the ability of being out and able to kind of look back and see things historically now it actually it started a little bit in 1994 he started to get this kind of crazy element of the party obviously accelerated a little bit in 2010 with the tea party But it really kind of a fire was lit with Donald Trump. And Donald Trump basically is uniquely shameless. And he allowed people to be uniquely shameless. And the party at that point, it's kind of like a boat that's like shifting in the waters.
Starting point is 00:35:55 And then it breaks free from its moorings. And that's where the GOP is now. All right. Let's peel off a politics for a moment to address your petty grievances, everyday grievances. And so what have you had it with, Mr. Kinsinger? You know, the very first thing is, okay, let's look. since we'll have to transition politically here, is Marjorie Taylor Green has not found Jesus, okay? And I am, I've had it with people that are sitting around saying that Marjorie Taylor,
Starting point is 00:36:22 wow, I agree with Marjorie Taylor Green. What's going on? She has not found Jesus. She's a con artist. She always has been. She is playing everybody. And I don't know if she's going to end up saying, like, hey, this was one big troll. Ha, ha, ha. Or if she's like, really think she's going to be president. But I've had it with that. That's one thing. I've been talking about this for a long time now, that she is a lot savier than I thought. And you have not always lived in the Bellway or some Blue City. You mentioned you had lived in Oklahoma. And the fact that certain things that she's messaging right now, when you're on your algorithm,
Starting point is 00:36:57 looking at all sorts of things, and then all of a sudden Tucker Carlson pops up, or Candice Owen pops up, or Marjorie Taylor Green pops up. And it's kind of out of sorts in your algorithm. them, but you hear somebody like Marjorie Taylor Green say, we have given Benjamin Netanyahu a blank check. That is not America first. They have health care. We don't. And they get higher education and we don't. And then you flip and then you see some cat doing a trick in your next slide. That messaging right there will hit so fucking hard and fly over America. It is really, really smart messaging. What pisses me off about this is this is something that Hakeem Jeffries
Starting point is 00:37:40 should make the epicenter of his party right now, the blank check to Benjamin Netanyahu. The really ties in if they really want to reach out, they're always trying to reach out to moderate voters, but the capitulation of Donald Trump to Russia, piling on that we just found out that Epstein was advising Russia on how to compromise Donald Trump. And the fact that Hakeem can't say this because he takes A-PAC money, it just becomes more and more and more obvious. I have a question for you because you were in the Death Star, the Star being Congress. Matt Gates, who's a total fucking nut, grifter, all of that, he said, and I don't know if this is true or not, but he said when he got into Congress that it's like, okay, you have to go on your big trip to Israel.
Starting point is 00:38:29 And so he goes to Israel and he had an A-PAC person, a monitor. And then one time he just goes into his hotel room and the person was in there and he was like, this is weird. So I don't know if any of this is true or not, but I do see a link between the Democrats that take APEC money, being controlled opposition, considering the APEC gave Donald Trump as much money as Elon Musk did to get him elected. And so it seems like that's a real conflict of interest. Like if Hakeem was taking donations from Elon, that would be a real problem. But APAC, not a problem. So, after being a, tell us about this APAC connection with both Democrats and Republicans, because it is something that's really, really, really disseminating through the base right now in a very unfavorable way.
Starting point is 00:39:17 Yeah. So of everything Matt says, it's typical with him, which is there's 30% truth to it. So the truth is, you know, yes, when you get elected, they do have big trips through, it's technically APAC. It's a different foundation because it's different money. and they invite you don't have to go but they invite freshmen to come and you kind of get the tour of Israel and and so that's that is true and then when you get a you don't get a monitor from APEC you actually just get somebody that's kind of involved with APEC that is kind of like your touchstone so they'll try to reach out and call you and stuff like that now the difference
Starting point is 00:39:53 to the now in terms of somebody in this hotel room that's creepy I have no clue I've never had anybody in my hotel room like that I would have called the police but But in terms of the money side of it, so there may be aspects like with, I don't know, what you've seen with Donald Trump or leadership where APEC or people related to APEC give a ton of cash and that would have to be through a super PAC because there are limits or whatever. When you look at other members of Congress, what APEC kind of does is basically says, we're going to give each member of Congress at sport of Israel, whatever it is, $20,000 or $30,000 per election cycle. and they actually kind of go around to different donors to make that amount work.
Starting point is 00:40:33 I've never seen any like standard kind of rank and file member of Congress get any more than like $25,000 to $30,000. Now, there are some tight races where I think APEC comes in with an outside group and spends money. I've never had that. So I don't think that like when people say, oh, somebody gets a check from APEC, before they're doing everything Israel wants. I don't necessarily buy that because I had to raise millions of dollars every cycle. and that had no, well, and just me personally, I've never made a decision based on any kind of fundraising.
Starting point is 00:41:04 But I do think it's legit. I do think there is legitimate concern to say, what is the role of lobbying, particularly of, even though technically these are Americans that are doing the lobbying, what is the lobbying on behalf of a foreign government, what is the role of that in Congress, and should there be a role? And I think when you look at like, for instance, the Gaza situation, you know, Israel has a right to defend it. itself. But this has been two years of basically bombing inside of Gaza without a strategic endgame. I mean, what honestly Israel should have done was moved into Gaza and run a counter insurgency versus what they did a counterterrorism where you end up just killing a bunch of people and creating a bunch of enemies. So I think those are legitimate questions. But I don't think,
Starting point is 00:41:47 look, I personally am not one of these that believe there's some grand conspiracy through APEC. But I do think people have a affection to Israel that they're unwilling to call out Israel. that is wrong. As, as purveyors of foreign policy, we have to be willing to call balls and strikes. Question. One of your I've had it's that was not politically related is one of my hadits, too, and it's about selfies. So when you share that? Because I want to pile on with you. So listen, the thing that annoys me is a self selfie, okay? And by the way, people can go through my history, and I probably have self-selfies out there, okay? I'm not sinless, okay?
Starting point is 00:42:28 But if you take a picture of yourself and there's no other reason to take that picture, I'm over it. I'm over it. I get it. Five years ago, fine. But now make sure there's another person in the picture with you or I might give credit if it's like a building that's cool in the background or something. But self-selfies, done.
Starting point is 00:42:48 No more. I'm over it. I completely agree. I've noticed that people that take selfies, I recently moved to New York, and there's just like in the middle of the sidewalk, taking the selfie. They feel no shame and no embarrassment. It's like Moses Mike Grindr Johnson standing up there saying this is the most transparent president in history.
Starting point is 00:43:07 He's incapable of feeling shame. Like they don't feel it. They do not feel. And the same with the selfie taker. I mean, there's a link. It's like been the dismantling of shame. And we need to bring shame back. We need to bring back some components of cancel culture.
Starting point is 00:43:23 It went too far, but I want some of it. back because we need to check people. Okay. I want to talk to you about your, you're being the last Republican. And I want you to share about, because we grew up in a state where people were indoctrinated to be Republicans. It's a part of the culture. Reagan, we both, Pumption, I grew up in the 80s. It was Reagan and this trickle-down economics and fiscal conservatism. And I have come to believe that Ronald Reagan, and things weren't so polarized back then, and this is through, you know, retrospection, that his critiques of the poor, demeaning people on food stamps, this kind of compassionate conservatism, where it's like, we love Jesus, but also get off your lazy
Starting point is 00:44:15 ass, and the tax breaks and the lie that has been perpetrated for decades by Republicans have trickled down economics. It has not worked. And you can look, I mean, this is just, it's proven because the wealth disparity is so much now that working class people cannot afford anything. And in 2016, I was a good MSNBC Democrat. I voted for Hillary, okay? I regret that vote now because I see that this governing incrementally and favoring corporations is really not an admirable or the right thing to do, that Bernie Sanders' message has aged much better. and it would create a much better society for all of us. So where are you personally? Because I see somebody's political views need to evolve. They can't be rigid and fixed.
Starting point is 00:45:06 You have to evolve politically, and I've evolved politically. And so I'm curious, your evolution from, I imagine what was probably a Reagan conservative, national security, fiscal conservatism, trickle down, you know, conservative Supreme Court, yack, yak, blah, blah. Where are you personally now politically? It's a great question because I, you know, I have evolved. And it's, I wouldn't say it's an evolving because I've sat back and I've changed my mind on things. It's because I actually think both theories are important at different times. So if you look at like when Reagan came along, I mean, tax rates were really high. There was a stagnant economy. When he cut taxes and injected
Starting point is 00:45:47 capital, the economy picked up. That was a good thing. But the problem is, When you have prolonged economic growth like that for that reason, then you get income disparity that results. And so then you have to find the right time to say, okay, that policy is put on ice for a little bit. And now we need to close this income gap because we're creating a lot of anger out there. The fact is we're creating a permanent billionaire and now trillionaire class with Elon Musk. And so I personally think that, and I don't know if it's every five years, every 10 years, if it's just like you monitor it. but I think both kind of theories of the economy have important roles at important times. It's why I've always believed that, like, frankly, a country needs a left movement and a right
Starting point is 00:46:30 movement. It's like a tug and pull that I think works out in the long run. Now I think we're in a moment where we're going to have to fix that income disparity. I think you have to do things with taxes to prevent, you know, billionaire families from passing on billionaire wealth and creating a permanent different income class that probably includes higher taxes on inheritance higher taxes obviously on income those kinds of things and we have got unfortunately it's not going to happen in the next three years but the next administration has got to get in and break up monopolies that are being built today right now you have a you know thankfully for independent media you know if not for this there would be no other way but if you look at the the media conglomeration it's all being
Starting point is 00:47:16 consolidated under one man now, Elon Musk controls X. You know, that one man controlling the media might end up buying TikTok, weirdly for about a tenth of its value, which is interesting. But you look at this billionaire class, and I think that's when it's time to look and say, okay, there is a place for, we'll call it Bernie Sanders economics, because this has gotten out of control. Like you can't have Reaganism permanently and you can't have like Sandersism permanently, if that makes sense. Don't you think, though, that I'm not an economist, so I'm earnestly asking this, that the, if you look at the Scandinavian model, which is the inspiration for Bernie Sanders,
Starting point is 00:47:57 that these societies value collectivism a lot more. In America, we value individualism. My tax break, my God, my country, my flag. And we really have normalized, and I believe it started with Reagan, demeaning fellow citizens, demeaning poor people. And he did it in a far classy or more polite way. But Trumpism just didn't happen all of a sudden. And listen, I brought me the Democrat just as much as I do the Republicans. But don't you think that just unregulated capitalism at any time puts the chum in the water?
Starting point is 00:48:36 And then we create these monsters. And we need to think more about collectivism. these friends that are Parisian and now they live in the United States. But when they talk about France and they talk about that a woman gets a year off after she has a baby and then the father has a paternity leave and they talk about their health health care system. And you know, the French are always on strike about laborers. It's something they're super passionate about. You know, they really like the French government tried to raise the retirement age and they went bananas. I was there when they did. They went fucking bananas. They were in the streets going
Starting point is 00:49:09 bananas fighting collectively against this. And I feel like culturally, we have just worshipped the rich guy. I mean, look at Elon Musk. That motherfucker did a Stig Heil and is strung out on drugs is a deadbeat dad. Whistle blew about properly about Trump being, you know, cancels deep in the Epstein files, as we're all seeing right now. And then he gets rewarded for it. The same with Trump. He gets rewarded for this. So we've created culturally by worshiping capitalism to a fault. And listen, I love capitalism. I like to shop really shallow when it comes to a lot of those stuff.
Starting point is 00:49:50 I really am. It's a character defect. But I've learned that it's not sustainable for everybody. That we have to come up with the system. I hear what you're saying about shifting back and forth. But I think when these millionaires get that chum in the water, they can't stop. It's like crack cocaine. So we have to combine some FDR, some Bernie Sanders, stability to our country because the collateral damage is democracy.
Starting point is 00:50:20 And that's just too precious of a thing to gamble. Yeah, I agree. It used to be that Republicans would at least give lip service to, you know, they don't believe in unregulated capitalism either. I think that's changed and now they do, right? Well, no, actually, it's interesting because yes, in a way, they do, but also Donald Trump is taking 10% of every company now, which is actually command economy controlling. I mean, that's Chinese, that's China capitalism, which is interesting.
Starting point is 00:50:50 It's this weird thing. But anyway, yeah, I agree with you. I mean, I think, look, I always have thought the role of government is to create a free and fair environment for competition, right? So it's to say, okay, here's a capitalist thing. It needs to be free, but we also want to ensure that it's fair, which is why when I get into the fact that, you know, Elon Musk is worth a trillion dollars. Is that fair? Not really. Because now he and his kids for infinity will have the ability to outcompete Americans, which is never what the
Starting point is 00:51:17 founders intended. And they never intended, by the way, they always, I'm sure they knew that a Donald Trump would come along. They basically wrote the Constitution to him. They never assumed a Congress would willingly give up its own power. That's kind of the surprise. But on top of that, they always like they knew that rich people would probably have a little more political influence, but I don't think they ever envisioned this, which is why I think things like campaign finance reform have to happen. Unfortunately, that takes constitutional amendment at this rate to do it. But yeah, I mean, I agree that when you talk about individualism and collectivism,
Starting point is 00:51:53 obviously I bristle a little bit at the term collectivism. I like kind of like community, like community thinking, which is we are all in this thing together. I think we need to have a little more pride. that, a little more patriotism in that. And I think individualism in and of its heart is good, but when it turns into selfishness, it's not. And you see that right now. You see, like, here's the thing I can't understand. And this is what drives me nuts. And I've talked about this as much as I can. It's one thing to say we need to have border enforcement. And unfortunately, with a heavy heart, we need to have deportations. It's one thing to say that. It's another thing to put out X videos where you're
Starting point is 00:52:33 dragging chains and you're calling it ASMR and you're watching, you know, young people and parents and moms be ripped from their kids in the line to pick them up from school and these giggling fucking masses of MAGA about it because they're being cruel. And the president of the United States, who's the most powerful man in the world, who against all odds one re-election is sitting in his office obsessed with retribution, obsessed with punching down, obsessed with being a victim. Like that, that is just the weakest, the weakest beta-maleist version of America I've ever seen. And in their mind, they think they're tough and strong. And that's why I think strength actually is the ability to put other people ahead of yourself to punch up, not down, or even punch across and to fight for injustice, to fight injustice, not for it.
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Starting point is 00:57:13 Do you, are you on his retribution list? You got to be. I would figure. I would. Yeah, but you know, here's my thing. So it's weird. There's an interesting thing with Donald Trump, which is he's always kind of been in a way obsessed with me because I've never fully been in with him.
Starting point is 00:57:30 And he's, I use the example of when you're a douchebag kind of like high school kid and you ask a girl out on a dance and she says no, you kind of want to go out with her more. Yeah. Or if she says, yes, you're like, oh, I don't really like her now, right? Because you're a little stupid high school kid. He's that way. So if you're not really in, he's obsessed with you. If you're all in, he'll throw you under the bus.
Starting point is 00:57:53 But regardless, yeah, I'm on the retribution list. and here's my view on it because there's literally nothing they can come after me for unless they want to come after me for doing my job my this is legit and if they're listening I'm saying it to you all again uh bring it bring it I will crush you in court and by the way if you come after me it'll make me three times more effective against you bring it come bring fake charges against me and see how that ends up for you that's what I say I do think what's so horrible right now is you have I think that
Starting point is 00:58:26 Cash Patel's FBI and the DOJ, Pam Bondi, and the pageant girl that's charging Comey, the only American on the lawyer ever that would actually take this case forward was her. And I do think they will cook the books. I do
Starting point is 00:58:41 think this is a president who called Georgia and said, I need you to find me 11,000 votes. And after Charlie Kirk was murdered, I questioned, I questioned the veracity of the text messages and people were like oh no these are and i'm like we're still playing two separate games here if you think donald trump isn't surrounded by pick me loyalists that would cook the books for him you haven't been paying attention and so as much as i i love
Starting point is 00:59:12 your um bring it let's fight back i am really worried that the the the people in the justice Department that were good, that were nonpartisan, that were civil servants that weren't looking to be millionaires and billionaires that believed in the rule of law are leaving. I think federal judges, one just wrote an article in the Atlantic that was a Reagan appointee, and I'm sure you've read it. It's just very, very, very disturbing, a conservative who's calling out this administration. So I also am fearful for innocent, brave Americans like you that this administration will not totally make shit up and charge you for bogus stuff because that's the type of shit that these people do. And here's one final thing I want to get your opinion on before we play
Starting point is 00:59:58 our world famous game, had it or hit it. Okay. So you come from the fiscal conservative background. And I know I'm so attuned to this culture growing up in Oklahoma City because my hip friends would say, well, I'm fiscally conservative, but socially liberal, you know, so that they could have gay friends and whatever. So for the fiscal conservatives, when you erode the judiciary, you erode the economy because you have no court that you can take your contract in to enforce it. And so what is your message to your former fiscal conservative friends and country club Republicans, which are a huge voting block that vote solely for their tax breaks. That's it. I know hundreds of people like this and they're not just in red states. They're all over the place. What is your message about banking on
Starting point is 01:00:53 fiscal conservative because, quote, Trump's good with the economy and then his actions with the court? Well, I mean, first off, let's just be clear. There's nothing fiscally conservative about Trump. I mean, honestly, if you look back at Joe Biden and Obama, they were more fiscally conservative than Donald Trump. I mean, I don't remember Joe Biden or Obama bailing out Argentina for $40 billion. Oh, shit. And I don't remember him terrifying and taxing the American people as intensely as Trump is. And I don't remember a $300 million ballroom being built under either of those. So I think we have to dispel from the fact. And this is why I think I'm so aggressive about the fact that the GOP is the Republican and name only now. And if they have every right to change what they are, that's fine.
Starting point is 01:01:36 than I'm the last of the old, you know, Republicans. That's fine. They can be whatever they want to be, but they're not fiscally conservative. So I think that's first off. Secondly, just as a message to them, the thing I would say is the roots of republicanism, if you think back to like Eisenhower and Lincoln and arguably Reagan or whoever, any Republican, the idea is we want a small government, but it's got to be there to protect people, you know, being able to litigate, for instance, any grievance in the court.
Starting point is 01:02:06 system, I think it's not really a conservative or Republican value. It's just an American value because politics was created to prevent violence. And same with the court system, right? It's the way you get justice. It's biblical. It's everything. And so that would be my argument is we have to preserve that, the rule of law. But also, if you call yourself a fiscal conservative and you're going to vote for Trump because of that, you're just lying to yourself because there is nothing conservative about him. And by the way, Democrats hate me when I say this. So I'm going to say it anyway, the Democrats are the conservative party now. They're also the progressive party, but they are the conservative. I have been saying this for two months now, watching Chuckles
Starting point is 01:02:46 and Hakeem, I feel like I am watching conservatives that have ground to a screeching halt that are trying to preserve the status quo. And it goes back to what you and I share politically. The ability to evolve that we don't have fixed rigid political views. I do about certain things about universal human rights. I'm very fixed on this. that. But about policies and messaging and strategy and what worked in the past, we have to be very open-minded about it. And the Democratic establishment feels like a conservative party that wants to govern incrementally like a bunch of puss boys. And I fucking had it. Adam, I'm about to lose my mind with it. I scream it from the rooftops all the time. I understand. Now it's time for
Starting point is 01:03:31 had it or hit it. Oh, my God. Welcome to had it or hit it. I would hit it. I'd have had it. I hit it every day, sometimes twice a day. The first one, this is hilarious. Kylie made this list. Trump's Ballroom, aka little Moses Mike Grindr Johnson. I've had it.
Starting point is 01:03:52 That's an easy one. I've had it. Okay. Had it or hit it, the Epstein emails. Hit it. Hit it. I like them. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:03 I don't like them, but I like them. You know what I mean? This is going to take him. I mean, it's not going to take him down. I've said this 100 times. This is doing real damage to him, though. Yeah, I agree. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:15 Do you think the evangelical base of the MAGA movement, I mean, I just, I don't think they care about this. Pumps and I have the theory, there's been so much sexual corruption in a lot of these mega churches. They're kind of primed for it. You know, the preacher's always playing grab ass. with somebody and, you know, doing paupers at a gay bar and shit like this. Here's my thought is, by the way, there is a kind of small but rising version of evangelicalism that's voting Democratic and hates Trump. It's kind of on the ascendance.
Starting point is 01:04:53 But, you know, yes, it's not the vast majority. I think, look, I think what it comes down to is for 30 years, they have programmed these people to believe that the enemy is the left, right? with literally blue hair or transgender or believes in higher taxation that is the enemy for 30 years they've been programmed to believe that and and Donald Trump is the general that is fighting the person they hate so they always use and you guys you know you you understand this because you probably heard people say it the king david approach right oh he was flawed too but god used him yeah but king david repented in the bible this guy is not repentant at all and so yeah and the other thing is
Starting point is 01:05:34 to finally turn on Trump and be like, yeah, he's a child sex predator, you have to admit your role in defending him for 10 years. And nobody's willing to do that. Nobody will do it. That's a rewriting history. Yep. Yep. Now, I will say, though, there are very small groups of MAGA that are coming to the light. I interview a lot of these people and my message to your audiences. When you see somebody say, you know, I've had it with MAGA, I give up, don't put a comment under they're like, I told you, you should have known, F you. Instead, let's do what Donald Trump does really well, which is welcome people into the fold. As long as they know what they did was wrong, Donald Trump will forgive everybody. That's his superpower. We have to grow to 51% or more if we
Starting point is 01:06:22 want to beat these people. I agree with you. I mean, as much as I'm mad about triple Trumpers, I acknowledge from my life in Oklahoma City that indoctrination plays a huge part of this. And the paralleling of spiritual warfare that the evangelical base has been accustomed to and indoctrinated to their whole entire life with Democrats or demons, Republicans or angels. And people that live on the coast and the Beltway, they don't understand how real this is to a lot of evangelical Christians, particularly white Christians in the country and that simple messaging like that, how effective it's been. And once they start to deconstruct and unravel, I know this because my co-host was one of these people. Right. You have to be there to help them
Starting point is 01:07:14 in the same way that you would be if somebody was getting sober from drinking. You know, you have to support them. And this is a cult in the deprogramming. It doesn't mean we're not still pissed. It doesn't mean we didn't think they were dumb asses or deplorable because they were. Those actions were those things. But at the same time, if we're the party of empathy, compassion, human rights, progress, advancement, then we have to be able to say, I get it. I know that sucked. I get it. Latino for Trump. I'm sorry you didn't read the large signs at the RNC that said mass deportations now. I get it. But we're going to take you in because I don't want you to be separated from your child. I want you to have health care. Yeah, correct. And if we want MAGA to burn out,
Starting point is 01:07:59 it's ultimately going to burn out by people coming to the light and turning, not because people die out. They're going to turn and realize this was wrong. So we need to encourage it. And I think it's starting a little bit. I do too. Okay. All right. How did it or hit it? Establishment Democrats. Oh, I've had it. I've had it. Me too. Yeah. I mean, like, it's just, again, you need energy. Like, I'm, you know, I'm an institutionalist. I want to preserve a lot of institutions. I think democracy is important, but bring the energy that I don't think they have. I think they're just too comfortable being in office right now. Okay, had it or hit it, plane crash enthusiasts. Oh my gosh, had it. Had it. Listen, I'm a pilot. Listen, I'm a pilot. And, you know,
Starting point is 01:08:43 I flew 22 years for the Air Force. I have a plane. I still fly. I have, I watch people every time there's a plane crash, give me their reasons for it, and they are always incorrect. Always. Or you have somebody that saw somebody that knows what they're talking about, say a word, and so they say the word like they came up with it. Like, okay, and the UPS crash, that's very tragic. Obviously, we saw pretty quick that an engine fell off, and then the number three engine, the one on the right had compressor stall. I saw people that knew nothing about flying, talking about the compressor stall in the number three engine, only because they, They just saw somebody say compressor stall in the number three engine.
Starting point is 01:09:22 I'm done with airplane crash enthusiasts. I'm tired of it. So what's the Tom Hanks maybe where he gets the fed? What's the name of that? Lost. No, is it long? Right now. Oh, castaway.
Starting point is 01:09:35 Castaway. Oh. So are you a castaway fan? Yeah, actually I did like castaway. That was pretty good. Yeah. It's pretty good considering it's just Tom Hanks and Wilson, the ball. I thought it was pretty good.
Starting point is 01:09:45 Okay. But if he would have sat around wallowing about the crash and making theories about it, probably wouldn't like the movie. Okay. All right. Had it or hit it, J.D. Vance 2028. You know, I'm mixed on this. I kind of want to say hit it because it would be fun to watch him go down in flames. I think J.D. Vance is totally unable. I don't think anybody's able to recreate Donald Trump. But I also am a little scared that maybe he'd run and win. But I'm still going to go with hit it. Do it. Run, J.D. Let's watch. I think he would crash out the same way that Ron Kittenhill DeSantis did.
Starting point is 01:10:22 Yeah, totally, totally. I think he would crash out the exact same way that they think they're the future, they're the air apparent, and they go and the Riz. Like, we just played a video earlier on our other podcast of him sitting down with RFK Jr. And it's painful. I almost would prefer watching DeSantis speak. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:10:41 And that's really splitting hairs. That's how low the bar is. I mean, he just has no risk at all. He's weird. He's weird. weird he's weird it's like it's like stephen miller's wife that like threw the jewish card out there immediately and they were like she was arguing with somebody and and they're like yeah you're a liar oh that's an anti-jewish trip like wait what that's weird jd vans same way they're all victims too
Starting point is 01:11:04 i'm just tired of the victims oh god and the connection um pomps and i are really interested in the connection with j d vans and peter till and peter till is such a fascinating uh case study because On the one hand, he is, you know, this billionaire became, you know, naturalized citizen, wasn't born in America, which is fine. We welcome it. We're a nation of immigrants. But, you know, he's an out-of-the-closet homosexual, which good for him. I support that. He has children.
Starting point is 01:11:34 I support gay people having children. It's a free country. But also his side hustle is he gives lectures on the Antichrist. I know. And by the way, he's physically morphing into the Antichrist, too. He looks like a reptile dramatically changed. And then he, the whole thing with J.D. Vance, like, he's the one who started whistleblowing about Trump, Trump.
Starting point is 01:11:59 He's Hitler, you know, he's all of these bad things. And the devolution of J.D. Vance is a human being that used to understand food stamps, understood addiction. He can't even fucking defend his wife and mixed race kids. And he will defend this pest. A pedophile protector and more than likely probably pedophile, in my opinion. Donald Trump, it's just fucking crazy in real time to watch the moral rot of these people in a very short period of time. My wife is Salvadorian, by the way.
Starting point is 01:12:33 If she, if I didn't defend her, she would cut my head off. Like, I don't understand that. Like, if somebody goes after your wife, like your job as a husband, like your basic job is to actually murder anybody that goes after your wife. So I don't understand it. I just don't get it. Let me ask you that. Go ahead, Pumbs. I was just going to say Ted Cruz started making it okay to let people, you know,
Starting point is 01:12:58 attack your spouse, whether it's husband or wife. Yeah. Let me ask you this. Having a Salvadorian wife and you see the anti-immigration bigotry, very dangerous bigotry. Do you feel more outrage? by that. I have a girl who works from my interior design project. She is Mexican-American. And I just see what she's going through right now and how, and I believe all human rights are connected. Like, anti-Semitism is no more important or deserves no more special treatment than anti-immigration
Starting point is 01:13:35 bigotry. I see the biggest problem in the most 1930 parallels right now, the anti-immigration bigotry. And I just don't think it gets enough airtime because, again, a lot of the population has been primed or gaslit to dehumanize them. And it's really painful to watch what's happening in those communities and see the human rights of other people prioritized as a greater concern than what we all are seeing right now, exactly who ISIS is targeting with an assist from the Supreme Court. Yeah, I mean, that's exactly what's happening. So, like, my wife was born an American citizen, but I know that if she's out separately
Starting point is 01:14:15 and I'm out separately, it's more likely, she's more likely. she's going to be questioned, right? Because she has a little bit darker features than I do. And I think that's obviously very antithical to what America is. And so that makes me, man. I also think it's why you're seeing a lot of typically kind of conservative Hispanics switching back to the Democratic Party. The Democrats are renting at this moment.
Starting point is 01:14:37 They haven't, like, made the decision to go back to Democrats. So I think that's something to keep in mind. But yeah, and at the same time, by the way, we can't pretend anybody that says this is not race-based is just pure lying because at the same time, we now want to open up immigration to South Afrikaners and people from white nations, because I guarantee you I'm German. If the Germans had a massive migration over to here now, we probably would not be as upset as we are, we collectively, you know, of immigration from South and Central America. And so it's purely race-based. And I mean, that's obvious when you see this in ICE, right?
Starting point is 01:15:14 Right. All right. Last one. How did it or hit it the United States of America? I'm going to go with Hit It. I am long optimist. I'm short pessimist, but long optimist. I think when we come through all this, we're going to be a freaking awesome country when we when we eradicate the cancer and we'll be stronger for it. So I'm going to go with Hit It, but maybe hit it in a couple years. hopefully i think that's a very it's it's a very refreshing and real answer and you know what i what strikes me about speaking to you is the liberation that in which you can speak not being beholden to anything or talking points and i think that this is something that maga kind of figured out before democrats did yeah true and um i just think that this type of new media in the face of like you said these monopolies and the oligarchs, and people being able to have conversations like this, you Republican, us Democrats that are really pissed off Democrats, and the common ground is so
Starting point is 01:16:24 important. But anyway, I just really enjoyed talking to you. I really hope Trump doesn't charge you just because I don't trust them to not cook the books. And hello to your wife and family. And thanks again, you can come back anytime. I really enjoyed it. I'd love to. Thanks, guys. Good being with you. Thanks, Adam. You're up. I just, I'm so struck by the people that, like, you know, he knows what he's talking about. He's been in Congress, obviously, political junkie.
Starting point is 01:16:56 But when you're not beholden to any party platform or any corporate donors, just the liberation in which he spoke, it's just so refreshing. Yeah, and he's a good messenger because very. was in the military he understands why you know here's why i became a republican here's where i am now so i think he's a really good person to talk about these evolution of ideas with completely agree all right that's all we have pumps model the book and tell them when we'll see them we will see you next tuesday and thursday Listen up, Patriots, Gaytriots, and Natriots. We have a new podcast that has dropped.
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